We Are the Ones We Have Been
Waiting For: Light in a Time of
Darkness by Alice Walker
May Not Rock Your World, But May Light Your Path.
A beautifully packaged book of spiritual ruminations with a progressive
political edge, from the incomparable Pulitzer Prize-winner—a woman who
has devoted her life to befriending the earth.
From the Introduction: In fact, the happiness that imbues this kind of
(impersonal) friendship, whether for an individual or a country, or an act, is
like an inner light, a compass we might steer by as we set out across the
lengthening darkness. It comes from the simple belief that what one is
feeling and doing is right. That it is right to protect rather than terrorize
others; right to feed people rather than withhold food (and medicine); right
to want the freedom and joyful existence of all human kind. Right to want

this freedom and joy for all creatures that exist already, or that might come
into existence. Existence, we are now learning, is not finished! It is a
happiness that comes from honoring the peace or the possibility of peace
that lives within ones own heart. A deep knowing that we are the earth—
our separation from Earth perhaps our greatest illusion—and that we
stand, with gratitude and love, by our planetary Self.
Author of the perennially bestselling novel The Color Purple, Alice Walker
has long been a force for sanity in a chaotic world. In We Are the Ones We
Have Been Waiting For she draws on her deep spiritual grounding, her
political conviction and experience, and her literary gifts to offer a series of
meditations filled with wisdom, hope, encouragement, and, at times,
serenity to a world in need of all these things. The perfect gift for Alice
Walker fans and anyone who longs for peace, on earth and within, this
lovely volume will be embraced for its wise insights and mature
compassion.
Personal Review: We Are the Ones We Have Been Waiting For:
Light in a Time of Darkness by Alice Walker
Funny thing - "officialdom;" almost as funny as the artless science that
apparently now best describes reviews.
For if I had not already been privileged - as a longtime reader of Alice
Walker's works, to be fully convinced of her intrinsic Human Value and
Literary Worth as a generously-gifted, and unconventionally-creative
author, I certainly would not have been encouraged to purchase her latest
works based solely upon the two "official" reviews logged on this site.
All I can say, therefore is Thank Goodness for the actual READER-
REVIEWS! Thoughtful essays which - oddly enough, appear enthused
and awed, where the "official" reviews come over as jaded and
condescendingly critical.
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